BOS supports audit office recommendation to review Swedish Gambling Act

Branschföreningen för Onlinespel (BOS), the Swedish trade association for online gambling, has backed the country’s audit office recommendation that the scope of the Swedish Gambling Act should be reviewed.

The recommendation from Riksrevisionen, the Swedish national audit office, was delivered as part of its audit of the country’s gambling authority Spelinspektionen, which determined that its supervision of the market was “not sufficiently effective”.

The audit office stated that Spelinspektionen conducts too few inspections, fails to prioritise assignments, and does not follow up on supervisory decisions, in addition to highlighting that supervision of the market has been “hampered by the lack of clarity in the Gambling Act”.

As a result, within its six recommendations at the end of its report, Riksrevisionen has recommended the government investigate the question of the scope of the Gambling Act to clarify in what cases online gambling is covered by the Gambling Act, as well as c..